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OA1 4 Speaking PDF
OA1 4 Speaking PDF
OA1 4 Speaking PDF
Work in groups of four. First, prepare for a meeting between the headteacher, the Computer Science teacher, the student
and the witness.
Student A Student B
You are the headteacher of your school. The student who You are the Computer Science teacher. You took the tablet
was seen leaving the computer lab is one of the best home the night before last to download some new apps.
students in the school and has never been in trouble. Your Sometimes you are a bit forgetful but you are sure you
Computer Science teacher is sometimes very forgetful. Your returned the tablet to the computer lab early the following
job is to find out exactly what happened. Think of questions morning. Think about what happened to the tablet and
to ask each person. prepare your story.
Student C Student D
You are the student who was seen leaving the lab. The You are the student who saw the other student leaving
Computer Science teacher sent you there to get a book the computer lab. He/She says that the Computer Science
but he/she clearly doesn’t remember. The student who saw teacher, who you think is very forgetful, sent him/her
you leaving the lab would love to see you get into trouble there to get a book. You are sure you saw him/her carrying
because he/she is jealous of your good marks at school. something but you didn’t see exactly what it was. You don’t
Prepare your story. like the student because he/she always gets better marks
than you. Prepare your story.
Work together. Try to find out exactly what happened. Then, if you have time, write a short report of the incident.
Tip
Practise giving information about yourself.
In a speaking exam, there will usually be a part where the examiner asks you some questions about yourself. These
questions will be about the present, the past and the future.
Student A: Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Then ask and answer with your partner.
Speaking worksheet 2B
Tip
Practise giving information about yourself.
In a speaking exam, there will usually be a part where the examiner asks you some questions about yourself. These
questions will be about the present, the past and the future.
Student B: Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Then ask and answer with your partner.
Tip
Practise comparing two pictures to get a feel for how much you can say in one minute and how you can organise what you say.
Student A: Describe and compare the objects below. Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating
yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
How important are computers in your life? Why?
Tip
Practise comparing two pictures to get a feel for how much you can say in one minute and how you can organise what you say.
Student B: Describe and compare the objects below. Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating
yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
How important is music for you? Why?
Look at the questions in the box, then choose eight questions and answer them. Write your own answers in the boxes. Do
not write full sentences, only notes, and do not indicate which questions you are answering – your partner has to guess.
What is something you are really bad at? Write: drawing pictures
Work in pairs. Swap your answers with your partner. Try to guess which question he/she is answering.
A: Let’s see – drawing pictures. Is that something you’re very good at? B: No, it’s something I’m really bad at!
Ask your partner why or to tell you more. Give full answers. Try to use gerunds and infinitives in your answers.
A: Why? B: I’m really bad at drawing pictures because I haven’t got a good eye and I don’t really like drawing anyway.
Tip
Approach the task in an organised way.
Student A: Describe and compare the people in the pictures. What is their job? What experience and skills do they
need to do their jobs? Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
Which do you think is the harder job? Why?
Photograph Credits:
a) © Shutterstock
b) Westend61 GmbH / Alamy
Tip
Approach the task in an organised way.
Student B: Describe and compare the people in the pictures. What is their job? What do you think they find
particularly satisfying about their jobs? Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
Which job would you prefer to do? Why?
Student A: Discuss the following situations with your partner.
Speaking worksheet 7B
Student B: Discuss the following situations with your partner.
Tip
Listen to your partner and respond to what they say before adding your own ideas.
You want to complain! Work in pairs. Talk to your partner about the following aspects of your lives. Talk about what you
don’t like about them and explain why. Use too, too much, too many, and (not) enough. Then try to agree on an order (1-8),
where 1 = the aspect that you both dislike the most and 8 = the aspect you both dislike the least.
travelling on public
your school your neighbourhood the weather in your country
transport
Tip
If you don’t know or can’t remember a word, try to use other words for what you want to say.
Student A: Describe and compare the things and people in the pictures. Why are they bad for you? Try to speak for
one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
Are these pictures typical of your life? Why/Why not?
Tip
If you don’t know or can’t remember a word, try to use other words for what you want to say.
Student B: Describe and compare the things and people in the pictures. Why are they good for you? Try to speak
for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
Why is a healthy life important?
Tip
You can ask your partner questions if they are having difficulty adding to the discussion or if they get stuck.
You and your friend are planning to stay in on Friday and watch some TV together. Here are the programmes that are
scheduled for Friday night.
Discuss the good things and the bad things about each programme.
Then decide which two programmes you will both watch.
Photograph Credits:
a) © Shutterstock
b) © Shutterstock
c) © Shutterstock
d) © Shutterstock
e) © REX/Joan Wakeham
f ) THE KOBAL COLLECTION
g) 20TH CENTURY FOX / THE KOBAL COLLECTION / GROENING, MATT
h) ABC-TV / THE KOBAL COLLECTION / TOM, RON
Tip
Make sure you extend your answers with reasons and examples, for instance.
In a speaking exam, there will usually be a part where the examiner asks you to give your opinion on a particular subject.
Student A: Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Then ask your partner and answer your partner’s
questions.
Tip
Make sure you extend your answers with reasons and examples, for instance.
In a speaking exam, there will usually be a part where the examiner asks you to give your opinion on a particular subject.
Student B: Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Then ask your partner and answer your partner’s
questions.
Tip
Try to explain why you think the people are feeling the way they are feeling. Always give reasons for your answers.
Student A: Describe and compare the things and people in the pictures. How might these people be feeling? Try
to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
Which do you prefer: to watch TV on your own or with other people?
Photograph Credits:
a) Robin Beckham / BEEPstock / Alamy
b) Beyond Fotomedia GmbH / Alamy
Tip
Try to explain why you think something is an advantage or a disadvantage. Always give reasons for your answers.
Student B: Describe and compare the things and people in the pictures. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of watching TV in these places? Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him/her your thoughts on this question:
Why do you think people like watching football matches on TV in large groups?
Photograph Credits:
a) PhotoStock-Israel / Alamy
b) Malcolm Park London events / Alamy
• We will soon have cured many of the diseases that exist now,for example cancer.
• With cooperation between countries we will be able to solve global problems such as global warming,
famine and poverty.
• We will have flying cars and trains which connect all major cities and safer aeroplanes.
• New diseases are already evolving and old diseases might come back.
• If countries don’t cooperate now, why would they cooperate in the future?
• We might need to move into space in the future because we will have used all the available land and
resources here on Earth. But who will go, and who will decide who goes and who stays?
• Our biggest problem is not transport, but the environment. We are destroying the planet and future
generations will have problems that nobody can predict.
In a speaking exam, there will probably be a question about the future – about how you imagine your future or how you see
the future in general.
Tip
Try to give full answers and use the correct future tense.
Student A: Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Then ask your partner and answer your partner’s
questions.
In a speaking exam, there will probably be a question about the future – about how you imagine your future or how you see
the future in general.
Tip
Try to give full answers and use the correct future tense.
Student B: Put the words in the correct order to make questions. Then ask your partner and answer your partner’s
questions.
Tip
Try to use different future tenses to make predictions.
Student A: Describe and compare the children in the pictures. What will the future be like for these children? Try to
speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. What can we do to make the
future better for all children?
Photograph Credits:
a) wronaphoto.com / Alamy
b) Pecold / Shutterstock.com
Tip
Try to use different future tenses to make predictions.
Student B: Describe and compare the people in the pictures. What will the future be like for these young people?
Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. What kind of future do you
see for yourself?
Work in pairs.You and your partner have been chosen to be monitors at a sports camp for young teenagers. You have
been asked to choose six sports that you think will be fun and interesting for the students at the camp. Look at the list of
possible sports. Discuss each one and try to agree on six. Give reasons for your choices. You have three minutes.
Read the sentences and write notes. Compare your answers with your partner. Then explain your answers.
Tip
Try to describe everything in the photo, what the people are doing, where they are or might be, how they might be feeling and
the position of things in the photo.
Student A: Describe and compare the things and the people in the pictures. How might these people be feeling?
Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. Which sporting event would
you prefer to attend? Why?
Tip
Try to describe everything in the photo, what the people are doing, where they are or might be, how they might be feeling and
the position of things in the photo.
Student B: Describe and compare the things and the people in the pictures. What do you think people like about
each sport? Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. Which sport would you like
to play/do? Why?
Photograph Credits:
a) keith morris / Alamy
b) rook76 / Shutterstock.com
Play in groups of four. As a group, move around the board and discuss the different holiday options. Use a coin:
heads = move two squares; tails = move one square. When you land on a square, take turns to talk for thirty seconds
about the two options. As a group you must then agree on one of the options for your group holiday.
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FINISH
travelling around or one week or two
Paris or Rome? staying in one place? weeks?
16 → 17 18
Complete the conditional sentences. Then write short notes explaining your answer. Compare your answers with your
partner and explain why.
Student A: Describe and compare the holidays in the pictures. Why do you think the people chose those types of
holidays?
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. Which of the holidays would
you prefer?
Photograph Credits:
a) Doug Houghton / Alamy
b) David Coleman / Alamy
Student B: Describe and compare the different ways of travelling in the pictures. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of each means of transport?
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. Which means of transport
would you choose?
Work in groups of four. You and your colleagues are in charge of your town’s environmental committee.Read the ten
proposals for recycling and protecting the environment in your area. Discuss each proposal – the advantages and
disadvantages – and then decide on the best four proposals,which you will introduce immediately.
1
Everyone will be charged 6 Everyone will be responsible for
for rubbish collection. Each disposing of their own waste.
household’s rubbish will be Areas will be provided in the
weighed and people will be town with containers for organic
charged by the weight of their waste, paper, glass, plastics,
rubbish. batteries etc. Rubbish will not be
collected from the kerbside.
2
All drinks (milk, soft drinks, etc.) 7
People who do not recycle
will be sold in glass bottles. their glass, paper, plastic, cans
Customers will be given 10 cents or batteries will be fined. Fifty
for every bottle they return to council workers will check
the shop where they originally people’s rubbish every day
bought it. and fines will be imposed
immediately.
3
All the street lights, traffic lights, 8 Money will be given to anyone
etc. in the town will be turned who generates their own
off at midnight. This will save the electricity for their own home, as
local council a lot of money and long as that electricity has been
will reduce light pollution. generated ecologically.
Student A: Use the prompts to write questions in the passive form. Then ask your partner and answer your
partner’s questions.
Student B: Use the prompts to write questions in the passive form. Then ask your partner and answer your
partner’s questions.
Tip
Try to spend the same amount of time talking about each picture.
Student A: Describe and compare the things and people in the pictures. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of each way of learning? Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student B: Listen to Student A and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. Which way would you prefer
to learn?
Photograph Credits:
a) redsnapper / Alamy
b) © Shutterstock
Tip
Try to spend the same amount of time talking about each picture.
Student B: Describe and compare the things and people in the pictures. What are the advantages and
disadvantages of each way of studying? Try to speak for one minute without stopping or repeating yourself.
Student A: Listen to Student B and then tell him / her your thoughts on this question. Which way do you like to
study?